It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
Ask yourself whether you have earned the right to have an opinion. Opinions are easy to produce, so bad ones abound. Knowing that you don't know something is nearly as valuable as knowing it. The worst situation is thinking you know something when you don't.
Except for a few guitar chords, everything I've learned in my life that is of any value I've learned from women.
I wouldn't wish any specific thing for any specific person - it's none of my business. But the idea that a four-year degree is the only path to worthwhile knowledge is insane. It's insane.
We must never throw away a bushel of truth because it happens to contain a few grains of chaff.
Life provides many lessons, so pay attention, everything you learn is valuable.
No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book.
Nothing was more valuable than the printed word.
Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India.
What is it which is bought dearly, offered for nothing, and then most often refused?--Experience, old people's experience.
Learn something that is valuable to others. Learn everything about it. Then maximize your earning from that knowledge. And then start your own business. That is what you have to do if you want to become very wealthy.
A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.
Which is not to discount everything I've done in my past; everything I have learned tremendously from.
Apothegms are in history, the same as pearls in the sand, or gold in the mine.
Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.
Make yourself master of one single subject and the time must come when your knowledge will be valuable.
To make knowledge valuable, you must have the cheerfulness of wisdom.
Interestingly, simple and ordinary experiences often provide the most important learning opportunities we ever have.
And the most important thing isn't the trophies, it's the experiences, what you lived, what's here in your heart, what you know, what you live. No one can ever steal that from you.
A scrap of knowledge about sublime things is worth more than any amount about trivialities.
Just having more days of being the director on the ground, that's been invaluable.
Botany I rank with the most valuable sciences.
Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.
Every experience, good or bad, is a priceless collector's item.
